Saturday, February 23, 2013

Removing Blogger's faint box around picture

Add this to CSS on Template


.post-body img, .post-body .tr-caption-container, .Profile img, .Image img,
.BlogList .item-thumbnail img {
  padding: none !important;
  border: none !important;
  background: none !important;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px transparent !important;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px transparent !important;
  box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px transparent !important;
}

Credit: http://www.perfectly-polished-nails.com/2012/01/how-to-delete-faint-line-around.html

Friday, February 22, 2013

Squiggle Outdone by Lan Messenger

Edit:
Lan Messenger is better:
http://lanmsngr.sourceforge.net/

Use this portable version The install version is trouble

Squiggle had problems with file transfer and setup was glitchy. Lan Messenger was straight forward setup. After install don't worry is people don't show up right away.

Change the way LM icon in tray appear so it always shows for quick access.

Squiggle is open source and free and just works. It is early and I am finding quirks.

You may need to install Visual C 2010 x86 if you are not up to date. Use x86 even on x64 OS.

The group was not accessible a few times right away, don't know if that continues.

This is a slick, stand alone solution to intra LAN chat that, from the start, works better than others I have tried. But I only had a chance to use it for an hour so far.


Tuesday, February 19, 2013

LibreOffice

See Libre suggestions here.

If you don't have Microsoft Office then use LibreOffice.
Get it here.

Search for the portable version if needed.


When you run the downloaded file, a new LibreOffice folder will be created where ever you ran the file and it will have all the files you need to run LibreOffice.


This folder can be place anywhere and LibreOffice run from the folder. Nothing is installed. When saving files be sure to use "save as" and check that Libre is using the same extension as the original file. It did not try to change the extension when I used it, so you should be fine.

LibreOfficeCalc is the spreadsheet. It will fill out your sheets just fine. It is all you need.

I just had portable LibreOffice not start on one old XP machine. I downloaded the "install" version. After install both versions worked so XP must have been missing some file needed. I don't know if XP will always need this


Win7 Hotspot

Appears Gone Now

Turn Win7 into wifi hotspot. It seems I knew how to do this without extra software but I forgot. Here is a little portable program that might work. 

Be careful "installing" this thing. It tries to trick you into installing tool bars. Just choose the right options. The program itself doesn't really install but extracts to a folder.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Raspberry Pi

http://www.raspbmc.com/wiki/user/windows-installation/

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Raspberry_Pi

Manufacturer Part No: 
RASPBRRY-MODB-512M $35

Pin Not Available

Crazy Error I had not seen before. Pin not available blah blah. I restarted a few times and it finally worked. If it doesn't some say to...